Bug#871649: lv2-dev: abuse of non portable pointer of uint8_t type

[Joël Krähemann]

Hi

Code like this might destabilize the operating system and compromise debian.
There is a good reason why glib-2.0 uses void pointers.

Bests,
Joël


On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Joël Krähemann <jkraehemann at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Might be just a programming error. But it is important that you don't point
> uint8_t pointer to a struct.
>
> Might be some language basics missing?
>
> It is the same for atoms. Just use void pointers, please.
>
> Bests,
> Joël
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 8:52 PM, Robin Gareus <robin at gareus.org> wrote:
>> Note that the LV2 event extension was deprecated years ago
>> and the last plugins which were using it were /killed/ in 2014.
>>
>> http://lists.lv2plug.in/pipermail/devel-lv2plug.in/2014-January/000642.html
>>
>>
>> As for the bug report itself, changing plugin API specifications
>> post-factum is never a good idea. So uint8_t it is, besides the
>> documentation in event.h makes it clear:
>>
>> /**
>> The contents of the event buffer. This may or may not reside in the
>> same block of memory as this header, plugins must not assume either.
>> The host guarantees this points to at least capacity bytes of allocated
>> memory (though only size bytes of that are valid events).
>> */
>> uint8_t* data;
>>
>>
>> not a bug.
>>
>> On 08/11/2017 08:20 PM, Joël Krähemann wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> For sure you can cast any pointer. But feels somehow wrong. The
>>> opinion was the specs
>>> are always correct.
>>>
>>> Bests,
>>> Joël
>>>
>>
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